Putting aside all the controversy surrounding the Justice League film and just looking at the character, Cyborg doesn’t inherently thrive as a solo hero. Like The Thing or Kitty Pryde, he functions best as the symbolic heart or emotional center of a group. As Cyborg currently exists, there is not enough of a unique…

I mean, it’s pretty obvious they’re standing shoulder to shoulder looking past each other. They aren’t making eye contact. Without context, it looks like a weird form of forced perspective but if you actually watch the whole scene it’s not that bad. 

My two cents is that it’s because society is largely looking at actors through a heterosexual lens, and through that lens, being a lesbian or bisexual woman, as long as you fit within certain beauty standards, is all mostly good, but being a gay man or a bisexual man still has a stigma. There’s also some infantilizing…

I think young, conventionally hot, feminine lesbian or bisexual women like Kristen Stewart or Angelina Jolie are impacted differently than other kinds of actors, especially gay or bisexual men. Movie and TV top decision makers are overwhelmingly men who are mostly marketing towards other men. A hot young feminine…

Jim Parsons basically plays sexless characters. Neil Patrick Harris has pretty much played straight only in comedies, aside from Gone Girl. Luke Evans, Matt Bomer, and Zachary Quinto also come to mind, but they also have little asterisks for what kind of roles they’re getting and at what points in their careers they…

“I’m sorry, but your Ferrari’s policy specifically excludes damage that happens on a track.”

This just isn’t true at all. The PS4 was no more innovative than the Xbox One (arguably its primary success driver, at least in the early years, was actually that it did less to try and innovate relative to the prior generation). The PS5 is no more innovative than the Xbox Series X, perhaps aside from the controller…

I suppose if one counts some of the most successful individuals and teams in the entire industry it makes sense, but if I were to discuss funds as a matter of course without such specifics, I’d personally hew closer to a more normal range. Like I guess I could say that hedge funds double the S&P over the past 3o…

⁷It’s actually a lot simpler than you might think. Black and brown communities, by virtue of cheaper cost and lack of access to stable internet connections, had far more exposure to console gaming than we did computer gaming.

I’ve asked before, but usually get dismissive answers about stereotyping. Yet I’m still curious: Why does the fighting game community seem to have much more black and POC representation than other gaming communities? I always wondered what it is about the black nerd experience that might contribute to such a…

That’s why you gotta find yourself a lawyer that doesn’t work on contingency.

Correct! The NSX is(was?) a good car and I have nothing against it, but it has nothing going for it either. My hypothetical $150k would go somewhere else for sure. It doesn’t even sound nice. You mentioned the LFA which looked awkward, cost $500k, was slower than comparable cars, but oh my god that old F1 screaming…

Microsoft already tried to buy Nintendo in the past. If the rumors are correct, multiple times at that. Nintendo told Microsoft to kiss it’s ass.

“The only reason that Nintendo and Sony have a space in the gaming market is due to Japan being fiercely loyal to the companies and their products”

Not to mention Sony is using Azure for its PlayStation Now backend. So the more users Sony gets on that, Microsoft is getting a cut. Whereas people buying Minecraft on PlayStation as opposed to Xbox does give Sony more money, Microsoft still makes some. This led to Sony putting games on Steam. It won’t compete with…

And that’s why “consoles” or increasingly just pre-built gaming PC exist for those who really don’t want any faff but as I said initially many of the issues that previously made them very niche have gone. With native controller support too now you don’t really need a special room or full desk for it. Mine just sits…

All the people saying 1 person on a 3 person team shouldn’t get their entire team punished have apparently never followed high school/college sports. Plenty of times a brawl during a game involving just a few players has gotten the entire team suspended from play/kicked out of tournaments.

Draymond Green cost his team a championship with his antics a few years back...why should this be any different?

... I remember it being so much prettier. Getting old is weird.

Now is one of the worst times in modern history to build a gaming PC due to scalping, mining, tariffs, and the overall high MSRPs of AIB graphics cards. You will end up paying double the price to match the performance of the XSX. Budget builds are dead right now, which is where the XSX fits in perfectly.